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Bennu, which comes closest to Earth every six years at a distance of 299,000 km, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

Bennu has a diameter of roughly 500 meters (1,640 feet) and has a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting our planet in September 2182.

YR4 has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but for now, you can watch it fly harmlessly through space in a short ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

Bennu is a carbonaceous asteroid, the most common type in the Solar System ... “This extraordinary work, done at the scale of ...

Here's what to know about the asteroid 2024 YR4 and it's chances of hitting Earth: This mosaic image shows the asteroid Bennu ...

With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

Bennu’s parent asteroid likely broke apart 1 to 2 billion ... each of which allowed us to look at the rock at a scale not possible on the asteroid. From the salts we identified, we could infer ...